DARPA'S Social Media in Strategic Communication

Another new day and more $ for the U.S. government persuasion and disinformation biz.

The general goal of the Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program is to develop
a new science of social networks built on an emerging technology base. In particular, SMISC
will develop automated and semi‐automated operator support tools and techniques for the
systematic and methodical use of social media at data scale and in a timely fashion to
accomplish four specific program goals:
1. Detect, classify, measure and track the (a) formation, development and spread of ideas
and concepts (memes), and (b) purposeful or deceptive messaging and misinformation.
2. Recognize persuasion campaign structures and influence operations across social media
sites and communities.
3. Identify participants and intent, and measure effects of persuasion campaigns.
4. Counter messaging of detected adversary influence operations.